This is an Apple Annoyance that’s been bugging me for a while — if your iTunes library is on an external HD, and you start iTunes without it mounted, the bloody thing can seriously mangle its own library index (under Tiger at least). So I’ve replaced my iTunes Dock icon with a little AppleScript that [...]
Tagged OS XI have a project (built from an AppFuse template) that requires Maven 2.2.1. So I upgraded to this (from 2.1.0) and set my path and my M2_HOME and MAVEN_HOME env variables. Then I ran mvn eclipse:eclipse and imported the project into Eclipse (Galileo). However, in the problems list for the project (and at the top [...]
Tagged eclipse, java, mavenOne of the few annoying things about my oldish MacBook Pro is its keyboard, for example a few unresponsive keys, but particularly the lack of a # key. It’s a UK keyboard, and has £ for shift-3, and # is hidden in alt-3 (not labelled). This is fine in native desktop apps, but less fine [...]
Tagged keyboard, linux, OS X, VirtualBox, X11The website is now live for Penhayl Cottage, a self-catering holiday cottage in Cornwall, run by my family. I’m not much of a web designer, but thankfully there’s a lot of free tools around these days that make it easy for an amateur to do a decent-looking job. The layout was based on a free [...]
Tagged Penhayl, webIn response to this thread on FriendFeed… curl -s ‘http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=pubmed&id=19614587&retmode=text&rettype=medline’|egrep ‘^(MH |DP )’ This will pull all the MeSH keywords and the date of publication from the article with PubMed ID 19614587. Stripping the field codes from the response is left as an exercise to the reader (but can be done trivially with a Unix [...]
Tagged medline, publishingIf I have images in .ps or .eps format, how can I tell how big they are? i.e. how big would they print out at ‘natural’ size without any scaling? If they have a correct bounding box defined — more likely with EPS than PS files — this bit of Perl will show you the [...]
Tagged graphics, perl, publishingFor a start, you can use mplayer to save the stream to a local disk: mplayer -bandwidth 10000000000 -cache 32 -dumpstream -dumpfile output_file.ra ‘rtsp://some.server/some_stream’ The huge bandwidth parameter will make sure that no throttling happens (at the client side anyway) — i.e. you can download hours of audio in a few seconds. The dumpstream parameter [...]
Tagged audioThe biogeeks are getting together again at The Miller from 6ish tonight. All are welcome.
I’ll also be running an interactive workshop on FuncNet at: The EMBRACE-ENFIN workshop on Expression, Interactions, and System Level Modeling Helsinki, 5th-6th October 2009
Tagged bioinformatics, FuncNet, webservicesCouple of upcoming events I’ll be going to… 1. Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2009) in Manchester next month, with a poster and abstract about FuncNet. 2. EMBL-EBI/ENFIN 2009 annual forum for small-medium enterprises (SMEs), in Vienna in September, with a half-hour talk on the same subject. No ISMB for me this year, [...]
Tagged bioinformatics, FuncNet, webservices
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